Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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505541 | Computers in Biology and Medicine | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Compartmental analysis is the most important modeling tool in biology and medicine. The perturbation due to a tracer in a biomedical system usually leads to a linear system that can be described by a compartmental matrix. The reducibility of the compartmental matrix has important implications on the system, both analytically and computationally. This note provides an efficient algorithm to determine the reducibility of a compartmental system. Furthermore, if reducible, the algorithm provides a means to delineate the sub-systems to be successively solved.
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Authors
Jin-Zhi Lei, Chang-Yi Wang,